Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-31
ALEssoN WITH A MORAL.
When VIII Our Eyes be Opened TO this
Great National Calamity?

Great National Calamity?
The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men ofour country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the tuli flush
of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and are
astonished to find that most of then died
of apoplexy, of paralysis, OF nervous pros
tration, of malignant blood humOr, Oh
Bright's disease, of heart disease, OF KID
ney disease, of rheumatism or OF pneu-
monia.
1t Is singular that most of our prominent
men die of these disorders. Any journal
list who watches the telegraph reports will
be astonished at the number Of prominent
victims of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared IN our
paper with others to the effect that the dis
eases that carried off so many prominent
men in 1886 are really one disease, taking
different names according to the location
of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be-
come the nine days talk OF the sporting
world, and yet thousands OF ordinary
horses are dying every day, their aggregate
loss is enormous, and yet their death
creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause OF
death of prominent men creates comment,
especially when it can be shown that one
unsupported disease carries off most OF
them, and yet vast numbers of ordinary
men and women die before their time every
year from the same cause"
II is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis,
nervous prOstratiOn, pneumonia, rheuma-
tism, and many cases Of consumption,
would never be known. This uric acid,
we are told, is the waste of the system, and
it is the duty of the kidneys to remove this
waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are MAIN
tanned in perfect health, the uric, kidney,
acid is kept out of the blood, and these
sudden and universal diseases caused by
uric acid will, in large measure, disap'
pear.
But how shall this he done? 1t is folly
TO treat effects. Ii there is any known
way of getting ut the cause, that way
should be known to the public. We he
lieve that Warmers safe cure, of which so
much has been written, and so much
talked of by the public generally, and
which can he obtained Of dealers every
where, is now recognized by impartial
physicians and the public rs the one spe-
cite.
Because public attention has been di-
rected to this great remedy by means OF
advertising some persons have not he
lieved in the remedy. We cannot see how
Mr.. Warner could Immediately benefit the
public in any other way, and his valuable
specific should not be condemned because
some nostrums have come before the pub
lie in the same way, any more than that
all doctors should be condemned because
so many OF them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions you
hear OH every side of that great remedy,
and public opinion thus based upon an
actual experience, has all the weight and
| importance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid in
| the blood invites pneumonia and rheuma-
tism, and there is not man who does not
dread these monsters of disease; but he
need have no fear of them, we are told, il
he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may sound
like an advertisement, and be rejected as
such 10y minimizing people, hut we be-
lieve they are the truth and as such
should be spoken by every truth-loving
newspaper.